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  • Re: Where is the gcc info page?

    From Mike Kupfer@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 09, 2026 06:50:01
    David Niklas wrote:

    I tried using apt to search for gcc's doc package to no avail. Of course,
    I can bring up a very brief info page, but I'm talking the "full length everything explained" version.

    Where is the gcc info page?

    If you want the Info page for gcc-14 (the default), you can get it by installing gcc-doc, which depends on gcc-14-doc (which has the actual
    Info page). But I think you need to have both contrib (for gcc-doc) and non-free (for gcc-14-doc) enabled.

    regards,
    mike

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  • From tomas@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 09, 2026 07:20:01
    On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 09:25:53PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
    David Niklas wrote:

    I tried using apt to search for gcc's doc package to no avail. Of course,
    I can bring up a very brief info page, but I'm talking the "full length everything explained" version.

    Where is the gcc info page?

    If you want the Info page for gcc-14 (the default), you can get it by installing gcc-doc, which depends on gcc-14-doc (which has the actual
    Info page). But I think you need to have both contrib (for gcc-doc) and non-free (for gcc-14-doc) enabled.
    Exactly. gcc-*-doc is in the non-free section, because there is some
    mismatch between Gnu's default documentation license (GFDL) and
    Debian's guidelines (the Debian Free Software Guidelines, DFSG).
    This is unfortunate, but currently difficult to change, alas.
    For some background:
    https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq#GFDL
    https://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
    Cheers
    --
    t


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